Best childhood & country Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”

“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”

Country Childhood Youth Return Bears Remains Tales Agents Fairy Comparison Fairy Tale Traveler Recollection Early Childhood

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn`t free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of childhood poverty when other countries have rates much lower than we have? Why don`t we have pay equity for women workers? Why aren`t we leading the world in transforming our energy system in terms of climate change? We can do that. Are we dumb? Are we lazy? Not the case.”

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.”

People Real Country Enough Use Might Young Three Names Language Childhood Theory Concepts Letters Code Hats Other Countries Forefathers Foreign Language Might Use English Words

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.”

Country Stars Sun Forever Childhood Fields Flower Moon Our Children Insects Lanes Moon And Stars Sun Moon Sun Moon And Stars

Author:Edna O'Brien

“I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.”

People Country Humor Running Kids Funny Games Doors Childhood Rounds Fantastic Running Away Foxes Knocking Badgers

Author:Bill Bailey

“Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.”

Different Country Childhood Adulthood Adolescence Adventurous

Author:Gloria Steinem

“We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.”

People World Country Happens Fighting Poverty Millions Struggle Childhood Majors Highest Standards Deserve Absolutes Tables Rate Conviction Minimum World History Standards Of Living

Author:Bernie Sanders

“You go to developing countries today and you'll find automobiles that you haven't seen since you're childhood and that's because they really are valuable, they're taken care of, they're repaired, and when something breaks, they just don't buy a new one, they actually fix it.”

Country Care Today Break Taken Childhood Havens Valuable Developing Automobile Developing Countries

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.”

World Trying Littles Country Whole Used House Fantasy Childhood Figures Mom My Mom Connected Our Country Shooting Daydreaming Reverie Miniatures Country Houses

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.”

“In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Looks Children Country Mother Courses Term Born Childhood Development Primaries Education System Early Childhood Burma Primary Education

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.”

Country America Childhood Development Commitment Program Significant Latin Latin America Early Childhood

Author:Shakira

“If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.”

Country Enough Problem School Opportunity Goal Poor Focus Childhood Students College Baby Rate Education System Completion Early Childhood

Author:Arne Duncan

“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.”

Mean Persons Country Language Known Childhood Walking Colleagues Foreign Countries

Author:Milan Kundera

“I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.”

“I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Facts Reality Lying Differences Numbers Cases Childhood Truth Is Infinite Cease Alternatives Indian Infinity Adolescence Unreality Adrift Jugglers Falseness

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.”

People Years Ends Country Sound Half Clear Childhood Forgotten Landscape Remembered Episodes Looking Back Scent Telescopes Misty

Book:Listening Valley

Source: Listening Valley

“Childhood hunger in America is as much a paradox as it is a tragedy. Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, should hunger darken the lives and dreams of 12 million children and their families? I believe that, when Americans learn the facts and understand how their involvement can make a difference, banishing childhood hunger will be a national, local and personal priority.”

“Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger. We can encourage programs that collect and distribute excess prepared food to local organizations that are helping the hungry in our own communities. We can also support programs that supply commodities to food banks. It's all part of committing our country's wealth and resources to end childhood hunger.”

Ends Country Helping Community Wealth Support Share Childhood Resources Program Organization Stronger Prepared Hunger Hungry Locals Our Country Abundance Excess Commodity Food Banks

Author:John Travolta

“We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.”

Children Ends Country Term Responsibility Share Childhood Future Hunger Our Country Secure Love Life Our Love Gatekeepers

Author:Edward James Olmos

“From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.”

Giving Should Writing Country Matter Hands Science Desire Names Natural Journey Childhood Accounts Give Me Originals Globes Respectable Niche Explorers Contributors Natural History

Author:Joseph Dalton Hooker

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